Top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan has been concerned about the DOJ’s domestic terror initiatives since the Garland memo dropped late last year. As a reminder, the AG’s memo labeled concerned school parents as potential domestic threats.
Don’t like CRT and raise your voice at a school board meeting? Terrorist.
Predictably —and justifiably —GOP members blew their tops over the potential power abuses and government overreaches inherent in such a DOJ initiative. Having the FBI monitor school board meeting activity sounds extreme from the outset —and it can only get worse from there.
So Reps. Jim Jordan, Mike Johnson, and Andy Biggs want answers.
“The creation of this domestic terrorism office appears to contravene advice from career Justice Department officials, and raises serious concerns about how the Biden administration will use the new office in light of the Justice Department’s misuse of existing counterterrorism resources to target concerned parents at school board meetings,” the Reps wrote in a letter this week.
“The committee must fully assess the department’s creation of a new office that could be misused to target American citizens,” the letter continues. “The department’s documented misuse of existing counterterrorism resources to target American parents raised serious concerns that NSD could similarly misuse the new domestic terrorism office.”
This isn’t even the first time Jordan has tried to get answers on the DOJ’s school board crackdown; they’ve been stonewalling him for months. And he’s previous request for information —juse one week ago.
According to his website, Jordan and “17 fellow Republicans sent a Thursday [2/10] letter obtained by the Washington Examiner to FBI Director Christopher Wray blasting the bureau for not sufficiently answering months of questions despite significant pressure from congressional Republicans.”
“We received the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s half-page response to our serious concerns about the FBI’s use of counterterrorism resources — as evidenced by documents provided to us by a whistleblower — to target concerned parents at local school board meetings,” the GOP members said. “Your response declined to answer in detail any questions we posed or to provide any documents we sought. Your response regrettably highlights the FBI’s pattern of refusing to accept accountability for its actions and explains why public trust in the FBI’s senior leadership has eroded so significantly.”
The department is only a month old, was created against the advice of senior DOJ officials, and has drawn the ire of the House Judiciary Committee, who will certainly turn the heat up on this issue after midterms very likely hand back the House to the GOP.
Then maybe we —and Jim Jordan —will finally get some answers.
